Jason Van Tatenhove
@jasonvantat.bsky.social
Author, journalist, columnist. Exploring extremism, tech, and resilience. Writing from the mountains of Colorado.
https://www.coloradoswitchblade.com
Author of The Perils of Extremism and AI Ink. - Writing…Publishing and Misinformation at the Dawn of AI
https://www.coloradoswitchblade.com
Author of The Perils of Extremism and AI Ink. - Writing…Publishing and Misinformation at the Dawn of AI
Just approved the final dust cover jacket design for my new book coming out in a few months! I think it looks great!
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Just approved the final dust cover jacket design for my new book coming out in a few months! I think it looks great!
Something doesn’t feel right here…are those deck shoes? Not very tactical…
June 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Something doesn’t feel right here…are those deck shoes? Not very tactical…
Took my 16-year-old daughter to the No Kings Day protest at CSU/FoCo. She’s been documenting social movements with me since the Floyd rallies in Estes—
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
June 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Took my 16-year-old daughter to the No Kings Day protest at CSU/FoCo. She’s been documenting social movements with me since the Floyd rallies in Estes—
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
and damn if she isn’t already outshooting half the legacy outlets when it comes to capturing raw emotion.
🚨 NEW CHAPTER 🚨
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.
Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.
Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
June 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🚨 NEW CHAPTER 🚨
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.
Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
This week in They Knew, drone swarms shadow ICE agents as Denver erupts. Fiction meets reality in this cyberpunk resistance story.
📍 Capitol Hill.
🛰️ AI. Protest. Defiance.
Read it now → www.coloradoswitchblade.com
#TheyKnew #ResistanceFiction
A new documentary film just hit that I’m featured in. The Guardian even mentioned my spot. available on most streaming services
As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
June 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A new documentary film just hit that I’m featured in. The Guardian even mentioned my spot. available on most streaming services
As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
As of today it was the 6th most watched documentary on Apple and had an amazing 93% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
I’m featured in the last 15 minutes of the film.
May 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
May 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
They arrested the mayor of Newark for trying to inspect an ICE facility in his own city.
This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late
#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest
This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late
#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest
May 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
They arrested the mayor of Newark for trying to inspect an ICE facility in his own city.
This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late
#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest
This is why I write They Knew.
Because journalism’s gutted.
Because fiction smuggles truth through the algorithms.
Because they can’t ban what looks like a story—until it’s too late
#TheyKnew #FictionIsProtest
I’ve been writing about it…from my serialized novel project this week. Where I’ve been processing just how crazy our word
Has gotten…
Has gotten…
May 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’ve been writing about it…from my serialized novel project this week. Where I’ve been processing just how crazy our word
Has gotten…
Has gotten…
Well at least there’s still Greta music in our brave new reality! 🤘
April 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Well at least there’s still Greta music in our brave new reality! 🤘
🔐 New chapter of They Knew is live.
Raven breaks into the CU SEEL lab. Security drones on her tail. Power fading. One shot to change everything.
📖 Cyberpunk meets resistance.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
#TheyKnew #Cyberpunk #DystopianFiction
Raven breaks into the CU SEEL lab. Security drones on her tail. Power fading. One shot to change everything.
📖 Cyberpunk meets resistance.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
#TheyKnew #Cyberpunk #DystopianFiction
April 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🔐 New chapter of They Knew is live.
Raven breaks into the CU SEEL lab. Security drones on her tail. Power fading. One shot to change everything.
📖 Cyberpunk meets resistance.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
#TheyKnew #Cyberpunk #DystopianFiction
Raven breaks into the CU SEEL lab. Security drones on her tail. Power fading. One shot to change everything.
📖 Cyberpunk meets resistance.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
#TheyKnew #Cyberpunk #DystopianFiction
They Knew is my serialized novel about a young woman, a rogue AI, and the collapse of the U.S. as we know it. It’s grief, rage, and resistance told in real time.
📚 Catch up here and 🔥 Chapter Seven just unlocked for free subscribers: www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#FictionAsResistance
📚 Catch up here and 🔥 Chapter Seven just unlocked for free subscribers: www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#FictionAsResistance
March 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They Knew is my serialized novel about a young woman, a rogue AI, and the collapse of the U.S. as we know it. It’s grief, rage, and resistance told in real time.
📚 Catch up here and 🔥 Chapter Seven just unlocked for free subscribers: www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#FictionAsResistance
📚 Catch up here and 🔥 Chapter Seven just unlocked for free subscribers: www.coloradoswitchblade.com/p/they-knew-...
#FictionAsResistance
My latest essay is one of the most personal things I’ve written in a long time. It’s a story of pain, loss, and adaptation—but also survival, memory, and what it means to be human in an increasingly machine-made world
If my work resonates, consider subscribing
🔗 tinyurl.com/3mb6je74
#memoir #grief
If my work resonates, consider subscribing
🔗 tinyurl.com/3mb6je74
#memoir #grief
March 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
My latest essay is one of the most personal things I’ve written in a long time. It’s a story of pain, loss, and adaptation—but also survival, memory, and what it means to be human in an increasingly machine-made world
If my work resonates, consider subscribing
🔗 tinyurl.com/3mb6je74
#memoir #grief
If my work resonates, consider subscribing
🔗 tinyurl.com/3mb6je74
#memoir #grief
It’s totally not a midlife crisis if you return to playing the games of your youth…🤔 but I’m Dm’ing for the first time…I think it might help being a writer and artist to start. #D&D #writerlife
March 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It’s totally not a midlife crisis if you return to playing the games of your youth…🤔 but I’m Dm’ing for the first time…I think it might help being a writer and artist to start. #D&D #writerlife
🖤 They Knew - a serialized novel – Chapter 7 Now Live 🖤
What happens when a surveillance drone corners a group of student truth-seekers in the CU steam tunnels beneath a crumbling America? Read free new chapters weekly
🔗 tinyurl.com/2849p9n3
#Cyberpunk #Dystopian #SciFi #ResistanceFiction
What happens when a surveillance drone corners a group of student truth-seekers in the CU steam tunnels beneath a crumbling America? Read free new chapters weekly
🔗 tinyurl.com/2849p9n3
#Cyberpunk #Dystopian #SciFi #ResistanceFiction
March 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
🖤 They Knew - a serialized novel – Chapter 7 Now Live 🖤
What happens when a surveillance drone corners a group of student truth-seekers in the CU steam tunnels beneath a crumbling America? Read free new chapters weekly
🔗 tinyurl.com/2849p9n3
#Cyberpunk #Dystopian #SciFi #ResistanceFiction
What happens when a surveillance drone corners a group of student truth-seekers in the CU steam tunnels beneath a crumbling America? Read free new chapters weekly
🔗 tinyurl.com/2849p9n3
#Cyberpunk #Dystopian #SciFi #ResistanceFiction
There was a time I made all of the illustrations for my weekly postings to my Colorado Switchblade outlet. I have started drawing them again, and it’s a great break from writing. Here is the illustration I created for yesterday’s chapter of my new serial political cyberpunk thriller novel project.
February 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
There was a time I made all of the illustrations for my weekly postings to my Colorado Switchblade outlet. I have started drawing them again, and it’s a great break from writing. Here is the illustration I created for yesterday’s chapter of my new serial political cyberpunk thriller novel project.
🔥 They Knew – New Chapter Live 🔥
A world spiraling into dystopia. A corrupt elite hoarding power. A grieving daughter with nothing left to lose.
Free to read, a new chapter every week.
Raven Marlowe just lit the match. Now, the fire begins.
📖 Read now: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
A world spiraling into dystopia. A corrupt elite hoarding power. A grieving daughter with nothing left to lose.
Free to read, a new chapter every week.
Raven Marlowe just lit the match. Now, the fire begins.
📖 Read now: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
February 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
🔥 They Knew – New Chapter Live 🔥
A world spiraling into dystopia. A corrupt elite hoarding power. A grieving daughter with nothing left to lose.
Free to read, a new chapter every week.
Raven Marlowe just lit the match. Now, the fire begins.
📖 Read now: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
A world spiraling into dystopia. A corrupt elite hoarding power. A grieving daughter with nothing left to lose.
Free to read, a new chapter every week.
Raven Marlowe just lit the match. Now, the fire begins.
📖 Read now: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
💀 They Knew – New Chapter Live 💀
What happens when a journalist, disillusioned with the state of truth, turns to fiction to fight back?
This week
A secret meeting. A brutal execution. The resistance begins.
📖 Read now: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
#Dystopian #SciFi #Cyberpunk #TheyKnew 💙📚
What happens when a journalist, disillusioned with the state of truth, turns to fiction to fight back?
This week
A secret meeting. A brutal execution. The resistance begins.
📖 Read now: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
#Dystopian #SciFi #Cyberpunk #TheyKnew 💙📚
February 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
💀 They Knew – New Chapter Live 💀
What happens when a journalist, disillusioned with the state of truth, turns to fiction to fight back?
This week
A secret meeting. A brutal execution. The resistance begins.
📖 Read now: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
#Dystopian #SciFi #Cyberpunk #TheyKnew 💙📚
What happens when a journalist, disillusioned with the state of truth, turns to fiction to fight back?
This week
A secret meeting. A brutal execution. The resistance begins.
📖 Read now: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/colorado...
#Dystopian #SciFi #Cyberpunk #TheyKnew 💙📚
Cats always know
February 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Cats always know
A new little bit of “research” for my new speculative fiction, sci-fi novel I am working on titled They Knew
January 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A new little bit of “research” for my new speculative fiction, sci-fi novel I am working on titled They Knew
